How do you compress files

I used to be able to know how to compress like 100 megabyte files into about 6 bytes, but I forgot... anyone know how

 

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You can use the maximum compression option with Winzip

 

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Clarentavious, winzip can do such a good compression nowadays?

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I don't use it anymore, so I might have missed smthing

the best I've gotten is 80mb (.pdf I think) to 8mb

 

If you are using Windows there is something that uses the filetype .ace ... I think its like WinACE...It compresses pretty well.

 

well , hmm , i think the only way to get such a good compresion

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is to do a RLE on a file full of 1 or 5 or 0 or 200 or ... you get the point

 

I guess it's true that files can be compress very well these days. But remember, anytime you compress (and uncompress) a file, you're causing your hard drive to beat itself up....and that's a really undesirable thing. I'm sure Winzip or any other program is able to compress files much greater, but the reason they don't - by default - is because of what I just said. It'll do nothing but destroy peoples hardrives, and for the sake of what?

 

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Hmmm... beating up the harddrive? I don't see how. Compression is the same as ANY
other data manipulation that your computer does. I don't see where your statement comes from.

-AntonK

 

Compression ain't gonna cause a harddrive to be beaten up anymore than anything else causes the head to read or write data off of the platter. Besides, once the size of the file has been transferred, it is up to your computer's processor to do the decoding, which doesn't involve your harddrive at all

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I used to be able to know how to compress like 100 megabyte files into about 6 bytes, but I forgot... anyone know how

nope that is not going to happen anytime soon but you can use winrar or winzip stuff it some program to compress it but it wont turn 100 megs in to 6 bytes.


Compressing a file a lot can corrupt it.

 

Acutally, I heard on techTV that when you decompress the files, your hard drive innerds have to work double-overtime to release the 'holographic' file. I dunno. Could be wrong. You guys probably know more about it then I do.

 

What your computer does when it compresses a file is to read one file (or files) and write another file to the disk. It does as much damage as to copy a file from one location to another on the same disk, i.e. virtually none at all.

You might be refering to disk compression like doublespace or drivespace or diskspace or whatyoucallit, which increases the load on your hardisk and thusly reduces it's lifespan.

 

I can compress a file up to 1,099,511,627,776 bytes long into 6 bytes as long as every byte is the same. First byte in compressed file is the byte that is repeated by the number of times in the next 5bytes.

To compress a totally random file is impossible as far as I know.